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OTD 40 years ago, two debut albums release: Tears For Fears' The Hurting, and (more importantly) Bananarama's Deep Sea Skiving. -- (link) - mud Mar 7, 07:42 [youtube]
Krusty news network: New Jersey Now Has an Official Pizza Trail (also NJ was named the best pizza state in America last year) -- (link) - decline Mar 7, 07:36
I’d forgotten why the Las Vegas airport mimics the Sixth Circle of Hell. - Reluctant Cynic Mar 7, 07:31 2
- sorry dude. As busy as they are, they don't have their shit together -- nm - Epiphany Mar 7, 07:53
- Or maybe the other way around -- nm - Beryllium Mar 7, 07:44
Fed Chair Powell says interest rates are 'likely to be higher' than previously anticipated - decline Mar 7, 07:28 1
- ...andddd there goes the market -- nm - Epiphany Mar 7, 07:57
Oh nothing to see, just the CEO of Krupp AG, Im sorry I mean Tesla, jumping right on the latest rightwing propaganda ploy like a $5 dollar whore. -- (pic) - Jovian Mar 7, 07:26 [Attachment] 3
- Krupp being a former arms (artillery) maker. - Mel Profit Mar 7, 07:41
- yeah but . . . Teslas, bro -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 7, 07:32 1
  - the only saving grace on Elon Musk is he is behind Ron and not Don. - Jovian Mar 7, 07:54
In what would be a first, Amazon Freevee show "Judy Justice" is looking to sell to Broadcast Syndication -- (link) - MDH Mar 7, 07:15
Peter Gabriel Announces ‘i/o’ North American Tour Dates, Drops New Single, ‘Playing for Time’ -- (link) - LMS Mar 7, 07:07 12
- I need to find a way to see him. - Dark Callisto Mar 7, 07:19 11
  - He was great when I saw him, so can confirm. -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 07:46 3
    - indeed -- nm - crash davis Mar 7, 07:54
    - yep -- nm - mud Mar 7, 07:52 1
      - I lucked out that it was the tour for Us, which is the last album of his I have liked. Well, Secret World Live was the album of that tour, which was - Spawn Mar 7, 07:55
  - Chicago! -- nm - Remlik Mar 7, 07:37 2
    - Wanna go? -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 7, 07:47 1
      - yeah -- nm - Remlik Mar 7, 09:10
  - but you've seen him .. havent you? -- nm - mud Mar 7, 07:33 1
    - No! Never had a situation where he was close. - Dark Callisto Mar 7, 07:35
  - Me too. He and Kate Bush are the two remaining musical artists on my live concert bucket list. -- nm - Reluctant Cynic Mar 7, 07:33 1
    - i had just started my current job full-time when she did the London concerts - hollywood big shot Mar 7, 07:39
Uhhh. So this is happening right near my house. The helicopter is circling overhead -- (link) - MDH Mar 7, 07:01 6
- be careful -- nm - Epiphany Mar 7, 07:06
- Why am I not surprised this is happening on Florida Ave. -- nm - pmb Mar 7, 07:05 2
  - old enough to remember going to raves off Florida Ave in 92-93 - hollywood big shot Mar 7, 07:07 1
    - It’s so different now it’s unbelievable. It looks unrecognizable from when I moved here and that was late 2000s. -- nm - MDH Mar 7, 07:13
- thanks, Biden -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 7, 07:03
- Yikes. Stay safe -- nm - spamlet Mar 7, 07:03
Just Breatht. Experts believe most people could benefit from improving their breathing patterns. - crash davis Mar 7, 06:59 3
- enbreathiate! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 7, 07:11
- I took a breathing class for a while and would recommend the book "Breathe". There's more benefit than you would think. -- nm - pmb Mar 7, 07:04 1
  - I read Breathe last year and it made some remarkable claims. I'm interested in pursuing it further. I didn't know you could take a class. - crash davis Mar 7, 07:09
Why Toblerone Is Dropping a Famous Swiss Mountain From Its Packaging - crash davis Mar 7, 06:47
Will, kmoney released a new awards listing and it looks like Belden is the fourth best player in league history. -- (link) - spamlet Mar 7, 06:36 1
- I’m biased but I’d say 3rd behind Reid and Richardson. He did win a NTT title and the others didn’t but the #1 game scorer and the only 3x LPOY - Will Hunting Mar 7, 06:50
Ukraine says Wagner is running out of prisoner recruits to send into the battle for Bakhmut. - crash davis Mar 7, 06:35 2
- When the Wagner group is finished, who is Russian going to send next? The McLaughlin Group? -- nm - prayformojo Mar 7, 07:17 1
  - I was thinking German composer so the Beethoven Group? -- nm - crash davis Mar 7, 07:22
ty97 news network: The DOJ and DOT are expected to attempt to block a proposed $3.8B merger between JetBlue and Spirit. -- (link) - decline Mar 7, 06:24 4
- I have doubts they will succeed, but we'll see. - ty97 Mar 7, 06:49 3
  - most antitrust comes down to pricing. is any jury going to believe JetBlue/Spirit when they say this will lower ticket prices for fliers? - hollywood big shot Mar 7, 07:06 1
    - You'd have to include Spirit's "fees" in the ticket price comparison of course. - ty97 Mar 7, 07:08
  - related: JetBlue announced that direct flights between New York and Paris will begin on June 29 and can be booked starting Tuesday -- nm - decline Mar 7, 07:01
Does anyone use an electric lawn mower? How do you like it? (And by electric I mean battery powered) -- (edited) - sycor Mar 7, 06:16 10
- On my third one! -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 07:49
- I have a Ryobi. It's good, not amazing but does what I need it to. -- nm - Reagen Mar 7, 07:19
- I have a Hart and I love it -- nm - crash davis Mar 7, 06:41 3
  - It use plug in rechargable battery packs. I have two to avoid running out of juice which hasn't been an issue yet -- nm - crash davis Mar 7, 06:43 2
    - Exactly me! I had Black & Deckers before and the batteries were like car batteries. So, that kinda sucked. Luckily tech evolved the Hart is great. -- nm - Spawn Mar 7, 07:50
    - I'll check it out. Thanks! -- nm - sycor Mar 7, 07:11
- We have one (Ego). Love it. Sometimes have to stop about 3/4 of the way through the yard to recharge. Could fix that by having a second battery. I - oblique Mar 7, 06:40 2
  - Side note: You can often find the Ego products on sale where the cost of another device (like a weed eater/blower/etc) is cheaper than the cost of a - oblique Mar 7, 06:41 1
    - Good call. I was looking briefly at the Ego on Lowe's website. -- nm - sycor Mar 7, 07:11
- my brother had one. It only had enough juice to cut 1/2 of his yard (which wasn't very big) - decline Mar 7, 06:36
Possibly the world's second largest deposit of lithium has been discovered in Iran. -- (link) - Krusty Mar 7, 06:13
Is hydrogen really clean enough to tackle the climate crisis? -- (link) - znufrii, promoted Mar 7, 06:09
Framed: 5/6. Moviedle: 3/6. Actorle: X/8. - Marlowe Mar 7, 05:37
*tap tap tap* -- nm - budice Mar 7, 05:13 1
- tappa tappa tappa -- nm - rollo Mar 7, 06:24
It looks like Twitter went down today because they didn't pay for access to their own API -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 7, 00:13
I was offered a chance to speak about David Zaslav in a mainstream publication today. - David Mar 6, 23:27 1
- You speak about him weekly. If they want a snippet, they can get a SITV podcast. - Epiphany Mar 7, 06:16
the first half of February it was looking like the storm door might have been closed for the rest of the rainy season . . . it was not -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 23:12 2
- I saw some satellite imagery of a super soaker on the way to LA (or maybe SF and north?) -- nm* - Beryllium Mar 6, 23:13 1
  - so rain turns to ice, any roofs covered in feet of snow? yikes...and it all melts and LA might be flooded -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 23:55
we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars -- (link*) - Mastodon Mar 6, 23:00 [mastodon]
very stable genius behavior from the guy making cars and rockets -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 22:24 20
- Luckily it's Gwynne Shotwell who actually gets the rockets made - JD Mar 7, 07:42
- Was mentioned in yesterday's BBC article - Twitter insiders: We can't protect users from trolling under Musk. -- (link) - LMS Mar 7, 00:04
- stage a coup, i didn't know corporate world was run like 3rd world governments...er...american either? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 23:53 1
  - Seen more often in the boardroom than the bathroom -- nm - St. Louis BaronHawks Mar 7, 05:54
- Why would anyone want to do him harm? - Qale Mar 6, 22:51 1
  - The people he really has to worry about are the ones who can outbid him on personal protection - Beryllium Mar 6, 23:12
- Bodyguards for billionaires is not unusual behavior. I've been in the same room with Les Wexner and he had bodyguards - TWuG Mar 6, 22:43 13
  - It's okay to love your car, but it's time to abandon ship on your carmaker. -- nm - David Mar 7, 00:11 12
    - Nope. Best EVs. I'll keep buying them til they arent. I'm supporting 100k+ workers, many of them American , Elon is incidental to Tesla - TWuG Mar 7, 05:36 11
      - Yep, but you were not defending Tesla, you were defending Musk. For shit he is doing outside of Tesla no less. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 7, 07:49 1
        
        defending? -- nm - mud Mar 7, 07:51
      - on the one hand I get what david is saying but on another you're not like "oh bill cosby's sweaters are the best, I'll wear them till I die." - judge indianapolis jones Mar 7, 06:04 8
        
        Musk is a rich asshole of which there is no short supply and he has a platform to be loud on. He deserves every ounce of public censure directed at - TWuG Mar 7, 07:02 7
        
        if you just want to suck his dick, he'd probably let you do it for free -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 7, 07:11 6
        
        wtf -- nm - mud Mar 7, 07:34
        
        is it cool to fire someone for having muscular dystrophy (aside from just being a Scrooge and doing it for no good reason)? -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 7, 07:21 4
        
        I'll direct you to my last post in this thread an reiterate that I appreciate and respect and mostly share the disgust - TWuG Mar 7, 07:31 3
        
        so there's no line for you. cool -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 7, 07:32 2
        
        Dude, seriously, piss off. -- nm - TWuG Mar 7, 07:33 1
        
        it's your money my guy - hollywood big shot Mar 7, 07:40
yes, the 3/6 wordle took me four tries. Not three tries. You know why. - Beryllium Mar 6, 22:21
TLoU spoils - Beryllium Mar 6, 22:04
20,000 at Kentucky worship event exposed to measles, unvaxxed attendees are requested to quarantine which of course they will do, right -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 6, 21:59 1
- Death cult. -- nm - Mop Mar 7, 05:21
Waffle 5/5 - znufrii, promoted Mar 6, 21:33 4
- 4 - 410 - GregW Mar 7, 12:15
- 4 - decline Mar 7, 05:43
- Waffle 410 - 4/5 -- (edited) - prayformojo Mar 7, 03:16
- -- nm* - con_carne Mar 6, 21:43
Wordle 3/6 - znufrii, promoted Mar 6, 21:30 7
- 4 - 626 - GregW Mar 7, 12:13
- 5 - rollo Mar 7, 06:18
- Sweaty. 6/6 - Marlowe Mar 7, 06:08
- 3/6 - oblique Mar 7, 05:46
- 4 - decline Mar 7, 05:41
- Wordle 626 4/6 - prayformojo Mar 7, 03:15
- 3 and was not expecting that - spamlet Mar 7, 03:14
Maddow talking about Georgia legislation to create an oversight board over the judiciary, to fire/charge prosecutors like the ones railroading 45 -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 21:25 3
- article about it, apparently it has passed and will go to the gov -- (link) - zeitgeist Mar 6, 21:57
- I saw earlier -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 6, 21:30
- if you can't win, cheat has been the GOP motto since 2000 -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 21:29
apparently J has ordered a pair of the Boots That Shall Not Be Named from Amazon...will have to see what she thinks of them. -- (link) - znufrii Mar 6, 21:05 [Backboard] 1
- I think you can stop it by clicking your heels and saying BEATLE BOOTS three times. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 22:01
Macklemore is apparently touring - MDH Mar 6, 20:24 5
- I am not pleased about the Aragon adding Byline to the name. -- nm - .☕ Mar 7, 04:49
- I think we were too hard on Macklemore, honestly. -- nm - Qale Mar 6, 21:32
- and seattle folks, his home town, are disappointed there's not seattle show -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 21:22 1
  - At least Olympia -- nm - .☕ Mar 7, 04:48
- 2 dates in Portland of course. -- nm - Mop Mar 6, 21:20
remember the HSX music game? I found a flaw in it early on and tried to get the lowest $$ account possible. I shorted every person under a quarter and -- (edited) - Peglegpete Mar 6, 20:06
Sudekis: ain't gonna be no more Lasso -- (link) - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 19:26 12
- “I’ve worked through my issues with my divorce and time to move on” -- nm - spamlet Mar 7, 03:15 1
  - not that we ever got a good reason that the TV wife divorced him besides . . . something -- nm - hollywood big shot Mar 7, 07:42
- “I’m not saying why I’m so certain it’s over. I’m justing saying that with season 3, we’re laying Ted Lasso to rest. In peace.” -- nm - Mop Mar 6, 21:49
- But they've "set the table" for spin offs. -- nm - Mop Mar 6, 21:19 3
  - BEARD!, coming this fall. Check your local listings. -- nm - Mop Mar 6, 21:49
  - After M*A*S*H suuuuucked - hollywood big shot Mar 6, 21:46
  - and Ted might return on "Cameo" - znufrii Mar 6, 21:24
- You're adorable. -- nm - David Mar 6, 19:28 4
  - you think more Lasso is likely? Will the pay for it? -- nm - Remlik Mar 6, 19:31 3
    - Oh, the Lasso-verse is just getting started. -- nm - David Mar 6, 19:39 2
      - I kind of want Roy Kent to have a Detective Munch series of roles spanning unrelated TV shows -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 20:59 1
        
        (Idea obviously inspired by a certain Valentine's episode that I watched) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 6, 21:09
Devil in the White City at Hulu is dead.... -- (link) - Remlik Mar 6, 19:23 1
- Bastards! -- nm - decline Mar 7, 05:44
New Marvel Snap season started. Season Pass card: Nimrod, 5/5, when destroyed, add a copy to the other locations. - Tim Mar 6, 19:14 3
- Had it against me in a game last night. Interesting interaction with Zola. Zola kills Nimrod, dupes him and THEN he dupes so you end up with 2x -- (edited) - oblique Mar 7, 05:45 1
  - The play is apparently nimrod then venom then zola. - the wrong element Mar 7, 09:09
- I just got the House of M Scarlet Witch variant. - the wrong element Mar 6, 20:02
Stressful enough seeing that Simone Giertz was posting a health update (she survived brain cancer), but it’s an update on PhysicsGirl. -- (link) - Mop Mar 6, 18:50 [youtube]
Way LIR: thanks for the birthday wishes everyone. :) Looking forward to a new and hopefully better year. -- nm - sycor Mar 6, 18:48
Just learned that my ex-wife takes our oldest to pub trivia on Tuesdays. It’s been a pretty amicable divorce up until this point. - Mop Mar 6, 18:44 1
- “Daddy’s not gonna love you unless you choose his team. He needs you to tell him if this is a Cardi B song or Megan Thee Stallion.” -- nm - Mop Mar 6, 18:52
Now that Geno is re-signed, I'd like to see the 'hawks trade down from #5 and get even more bodies for Russ. Of course, I don't get a say. -- nm - crash davis Mar 6, 18:36 1
- M V P -- nm - psilotum Mar 6, 18:56
New Portugal. The Man -- (link) - Dano Mar 6, 18:34 [youtube]
is anyone here good at photo editing? - loosilu Mar 6, 18:17 [Attachment] 5
- I'm not great at it, but here's what I came up with. -- (pic) - sycor Mar 7, 07:33 [Attachment] 1
  - And colorized -- (pic) - sycor Mar 7, 07:33 [Attachment]
- Basic MSphoto editing cleans it up some, but I don't know enough to get too far into the background. -- (pic) - Meg Mar 6, 21:35 [Attachment]
- I only downloaded a 49kb version but even just using the default enhanced settings in Google Photoa made it pop. - Mop Mar 6, 21:25
- a simple contrast adjustment would fix it up, then select the people in the background a brighten, or make a screen blend. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 6, 21:21
Make it rain Z! -- nm - Flavorize Mar 6, 18:10
And I somehow ended up letting myself get talked into joining a pickup basketball game at lunch tomorrow. -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 6, 17:56 4
- What Flavorize said -- nm - con_carne Mar 6, 19:36
- Should I wait until tomorrow to start the GoFundMe for the hospital bills? -- nm - Mop Mar 6, 18:54
- And by "talked into" I mean they asked if I wanted to do it and I said yes. -- nm - znufrii Mar 6, 17:58 1
  - twist my arm harder! -- nm - poor little znu Mar 6, 18:10

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